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Traité des dégénérescences physiques, intellectuelles et morales de l'espèce humaine et des causes qui produisent ces variétés maladives : atlas de xii planches

by: Morel, Benedict Augustin, 1809-1873; Hanson, David A

Publication date: 1857

Topics: Psychiatry -- Early works to 1900, Psychiatry -- France, Mental illness -- Genetic aspects, Degeneration, Congenital hypothyroidism

Publisher: Paris : J.B. Baillière

Collection: Brandeis_University; blc; medicalheritagelibrary; americana

Contributor: Brandeis University Libraries

Language: French

Donated by the Howe Library of the Walter E. Fernald Development Center, Waltham, Massachussets

Includes bibliographical references

"Plates are lithographs of striking portraits of inmates of the mental institutions, mostly from art but plates xi and xii are hand copied lithographs from photographs of people who suffer from cretinism and other severe mental problems."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 18

"Les planches XI and XII reproduisent des photographies appartenant à M. Baillarger médecin de l'hospice de la Salpêtière."--Atlas, p. 21

Plates are by Léveillé, lith., Becquet frères, and photographs are by Mr. Baillarger

Notes

pages were scanned flush to the glass, yet the text on the illustration pages came out very very light.

Addeddate: 2011-01-28 19:57:38

Associated-names: Walter E. Fernald State School. Howe Library; Thorelle J. J.?; Léveillé; Baillarger; Hanson, David A; Becquet frères; Baillière, J.B